The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.